Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 116 ft. Geraldine Deruiter

Brooke Warner

Geraldine DeRuiter joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about how being okay with yourself has become deeply radical, the role women have in the home and culinary world, our complex personal and societal relationship with food and feminism, body unkindness and the erosion of body trust, her blog the Everywhereist.com, getting used to imperfection, working with an editor, going viral multiple times, parasocial relationships and creating boundaries, winning a James Beard Award for her writing, and her new book If You Can’t Take the Heat.

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Episode 136 ft. Rachel Zimmerman

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Episode 135 ft. Sarah LaBrie

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